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1. I will go on record as saying this has been the most entertaining and competitive opening rounds of NBA playoffs I can remember (minus Cavs vs. Pistons and Nuggets vs. Hornets).
2. The current Chicago Bulls roster is a who's who of Final Fours recent past.
- Loul Deng – Duke 2004
- Kirk Hinrich – Kansas 2003
- Ben Gordon – UConn – 2004
- Tyrus Thomas – LSU – 2006
- Joakim Noah – Florida – 2006 and 2007
- Derrick Rose – Memphis – 2008
3. The Derrick Rose/Rajon Rondo triple-double "anything you can do, I can do better" showdown, is the single best match-up in the playoffs.
4. The Cavs looked bored at times playing the Pistons, if it weren't for the fact that the LeBrons were so much fun, I would have been bored. It seemed like there were more Cavs fans at the games in Detroit than Pistons fans.
5. Example of balance – in Game 4 of the Sixers vs. the Magic, every stater scored in double figures. Hedu Turkaglu finally showed up and hit a game winner when the Magic needed. Philly's Andre Miller is underrated and has been his whole career. Andre Iquodala is showing the nonbelievers that he is a legit All-Star type player not just an athlete.
6. The Hawks are talented, just not basketball savvy enough to take this series from DWade and the south beach bunch.
7. If Kobe plays like he did in Game 4, the run to the Championship series will be short. Carlos boozer has one of the nice jump shots, I would have never thought so at Duke.
8. Yao looks tough and Von Wafer is the talk of the town in Houston. PS – Portland. FRONT YAO IN THE POST!
9. Say good-bye to one of the greatest Dynastys we have seen. Duncan is at the end of maybe the greatest career since Jordan and the Spurs will have to find another way to win, just not this year.
Side Note – The Pistons, as we knew them, are done. The lose to Cleavland is the final bell and this team is be exploded all over the league. No one is safe.
Draft Declarers Round 6 or 7 – just like the NFL draft
- Gerald Henderson, guard from Duke
- Ty Lawson, guard from UNC
- Wayne Ellington, guard from UNC
- Steph Curry, guard from Davidson
- Greivis Vasquez, guard from Maryland
- Tyler Smith, forward from Tennessee
Everyone not names Vasquez, go to the NBA. The only one that is questionable is Smith. We know what he can do, but I want to see him develop a better shot. Personally, I would like Henderson to come back and lead a stacked Duke squad, and he still has the option without an agent. Only Curry has signed with an agent, but I would expect the first three on the list to join him quickly.
ESPN"s Andy Katz voices his opinons on the underclassmen.
NDSU's Woodside Workouts
Ben Woodside will be wearing NBA gear of at least four different teams, if only for a couple hours. Woodside has work outs scheduled with the Timberwolves, Trial Blazers, Grizzles and Rockets and should expect more in the near future.
Many experts feel Woodside will not be drafted, but is almost guaranteed a free agent contact with an NBA team.
DraftExpress.com had this to say about Woodside durning the Portsmouth Tourney.
Random Hits
- I would like to know how many people, who are not getting paid, actually watch the entire NFL draft.
- I am not sure who started the trend, but I like seeing the players at home waiting to be selected. Surround by people who have supported them not matter what jersey they wore. Instead of with a bunch of people who are only cheering you because you wear their team's jersey.
- Boston swept the Yankees – suddenly, A-Rod is needed.


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This morning, beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern, the Court will issue orders from last Thursday's conference and then the final opinions of the Term. We will relay both in the Live Blog below, with the assistance of our reporter at the Court, Lyle Denniston.
The final four opinions are Bilski v. Kappos (patents), Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (separation of powers), McDonald v. Chicago (guns), and Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (right of association). More information about each can be found at its SCOTUSwiki page by clicking its title.
Once you see the Live Blog window and our initial welcome, we ask that you do not refresh your browser. Updates will appear without the need for refreshing. We will begin live-blogging in earnest at approximately 9:45.
We will publish the full texts of all four opinions in a separate post after the live blog.
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For spring break, students typically choose a warm, sunny place to relax and get a tan. So naturally, the first question Southwestern Adventist University (SWAU) student-athletes and sponsors received upon arrival at sister school Canadian University College (CUC) was, "why did you decide to come to cold, snowy Canada during your spring break?" With a plethora of reasons but one mission in mind, a group of 62 student-athletes and sponsors from SWAU traveled to Lacombe, Alberta in Canada on March 13th, 2014. For the next ten days, SWAU athletes would compete against CUC, Ambrose University College, and other teams in men's and women's basketball, volleyball, and indoor soccer. The theme for the group and worship was, "What Is Your Name?" The mission was to represent God, SWAU, and each family well on and off the court. The hope was to win games. To their surprise, the sojourners from the South were able to do all of that and much more.
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A couple of weeks ago, I came to a realisation: I was becoming more and more reluctant to click on advertising banners because I feared I would be digitally tailed for the next few months. When I mentioned this to friends, I noted that I was not alone. Everyone had their example of ads that, once clicked, become as sticky as the proverbial band aid. This could be the result of exploring a product (read my own experience testing an app), or occasional research on a subject.
Your online behavior – queries you send, ads you click on – draws your marketing profile, enabling brands to deluge you with "targeted" ads. A shoe freak will be swamped by shoemakers ads, someone who intends to buy a car will be targeted by automakers and dealers. (I always wonder how the web page of someone afflicted with an embarrassing disease looked like...)
Once you're caught in the behavioral targeting net, you'll have a hard time cleaning up your surfing. I recently tested a utility for my computer – a poor quality product I quickly dumped – and ended up having to spend time removing the offending cookies with metaphorical tweezers. Now, I sacrifice a "polluted" browser (and a specific email account) which I use to click on ads, download products or marketing information, and do my best to keep my other browsers clean.
Why not flush the hundreds of cookies piled up inside my browsers, you might ask? Good question. In a file on my two computers, I keep almost 200 encrypted passwords, ranging from subscriptions to various publications, accounts to e-commerce sites or business online services. I don't want to re-enter these codes each time I get rid of unwanted cookies. Hence the "dirty" browser.
The conclusion is obvious: behavioral advertising is backfiring. The more experienced users become, the more cautious they get in order to avoid aggressive tracking. For advertisers, this is the exact opposite of what they meant to achieve. And I think the trend will accelerate. Marketers have more sense of efficiency than of measure; they were quick to embrace these clever technologies without considering they might end up killing the golden goose. It is happening much earlier than anyone has anticipated.
The debate around the Do Not Track (DNT) system epitomises this trend. The idea originated at the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC): it devised a piece of software embedded in a browser or an application, able to send a signal instructing a web site not to inject a tracking cookie in the user's computer. After that, it is up to the website to comply or not. Mozilla quickly included the feature in its version 9.0 of Firefox, and Twitter followed.
Early in June, Microsoft added fuel to the fire by announcing the DNT feature will be turned "on" as a default on its new Internet Explorer 10 browser set to work with Windows 8. This is by no means unimportant: the vast majority of users do not change default settings in their software. As a result, a sizable percentage of web surfers could end up automatically asking web sites to forgo any tracking. A potential catastrophe for the advertising industry: while most ads are purchases in bulk, at heavy discounts, the industry relies on behavioral targeting to increase the efficiency of ads – and of their resulting margins.
Intense lobbying on behalf the ad community ensued.
First, the definition issue, as viewed by the FTC:
An effective Do Not Track system should go beyond simply opting consumers out of receiving targeted advertisements; it should opt them out of collection of behavioral data for all purposes other than those that would be consistent with the context of the interaction.
Naturally, marketers are in favor of a much narrower definition, excluding the data collection process. In other words, OK for not targeting users, but their personal data must be ours.
In this story, Atlantic's senior editor Alexis Madrigal makes the following point:
No one understands the industry's definition because it deviates so far from the standard english definition of the word 'track'. Stanford's Aleecia McDonald found that 61% of people expect that clicking a Do Not Track button should shut off *all* data collection. Only 7% of people expected that websites could collect the same data before and after clicking a 'Do Not Track' button. That is to say, 93% of people do not understand the industry's definition of DNT.
Eventually, Microsoft had to backtrack under pressure from the Digital Advertising Alliance. The DAA is a one-year old body that defines itself as the "self-regulatory program for online behavioral advertising"; it lines up all the major players in the business, including Google, Apple and Microsoft. The DAA fired a first shot by saying that the "on" default setting envisioned by Microsoft was going way beyond FTC's definition as well as the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)'s DNT recommendation.
The DAA suggested DNT activation ought to be left to users – for instance, when they launch their browser for the first time. As a consequence, Microsoft's IE10 featuring a DNT set to "on" as a ''factory default'' would be seen as "non-compliant" and the no-tracking signal sent to web sites could be legally ignored.
The battle is just starting. It is unclear if Microsoft will fight the non-compliance issue and what kind of compromise will be reached. (The DAA's final position will be disclosed in a few months.) In the meantime, digital kremlinologists will keep dissecting Microsoft true motives. After all, according to eMarketer, this year, in the US alone, the Redmond giant will make $700m (£450m) in advertising revenue:
This chart also clearly shows what's at stake here. With DNT-as-a-default, Microsoft is obviously aiming at Google and Facebook – and their higher advertising income. Both rely heavily on data collection to serve relevant ads. It is even a crucial part of Facebook's business model (see this previous Monday Note: Facebook's Bet on Privacy) based on people giving up personal data in exchange for its service. A bet increasingly at risk.


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Police fear a new round of escalating gang violence after Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon was shot dead outside a Kelowna resort Sunday afternoon and his Hells Angel friend was critically wounded.
Bacon, who was out on bail on a series of gun and drug charges, was targeted by a masked gunman about 2:45 p.m.
Five others were wounded in the attack, including Bacon's close friend and full-patch Hells Angel, Larry Amero, 35, who was in critical condition Sunday night.
Despite the fact the two are in different gangs, Bacon, 30, and Amero, of the White Rock Hells Angels chapter, have been frequently seen together across Metro Vancouver. Port Moody police recently stopped them on a cigarette boat with a man linked to the Independent Soldiers.
Kelowna RCMP Const. Steve Holmes would not confirm the identity of Bacon or the other victims. But The Vancouver Sun confirmed both Bacon and Amero's names with several contacts.
The Red Scorpions have had a high-profile dispute during the past five years with the rival United Nations gang that has resulted in several shootings, including several fatalities.
Last month, UN member Michael Newman was severely beaten in Kent prison in an attack believed to have been ordered by a Red Scorpion inside the same institution.
Bacon and his two younger brothers, Jarrod and Jamie, grew up in Abbotsford, where they have had frequent run-ins with police.
Jonathan Bacon was shot several times outside the former family home there in 2006, but survived. Jamie, who is in pre-trial custody in the Surrey Six murder case, has been targeted in at least two shootings. Jarrod is also in jail awaiting trial in a drug case.
Several gang experts told The Sun on Sunday that they fear retaliation for the brazen public shooting of such high-profile gangsters.
Holmes said at an RCMP news conference Sunday night that the investigation into the shooting outside the casino at the Delta Grand Okanagan Resort is "in its infancy."
"Clearly, this kind of incident is very rare in Kelowna. However, when it does happen, it is shocking and traumatic to those affected by it and is of concern to those living in this community," Holmes said. "The public needs to know that swift and extraordinary measures are being taken in order to ensure that those responsible will be found and brought to account before the courts."
Holmes said a white Porsche SUV with both men and women inside was just leaving through the resort's front entrance when an unconfirmed number of shooters in a vehicle behind the Porsche opened fire.
"The victim's vehicle drove a short distance and then stopped," Holmes said. "A suspect vehicle, a silvery green SUV, left the scene and drove up Cawston Ave. before disappearing in an unknown direction."
He said all those in the Porsche were hit, with one passenger confirmed dead.
"Police believe that the general public is not at risk," he said. "Police have not yet made arrests, but are actively investigating as to the identities of those responsible."
Witnesses told reporters the gunmen wore balaclavas and black clothing.
A Calgary man said he was walking on Water street when the saw a man shoot an automatic rifle at a vehicle, leaving it bloody and "full of holes." He said he saw a man with lots of tattoos and two women get into a Porsche Cayenne at the resort's front entrance. He then heard the shooting begin.
"I pretty much seen some guy with a mask unload a clip, ran back out here to the sidewalk, ran back in unloading a clip, jumped in a silver Explorer and hoofed it that way," said the man who refused to provide his name. "At least 30 shots, at least a full clip," he said. "I went back to look and those guys in the vehicle had blood all over."
Holmes said the Kelowna RCMP Serious Crime Unit, augmented by a number of officers from other sections, are investigating this incident. He urged people with information, videos or photos from the shooting to call the Kelowna RCMP at 250-762-3300 or Crime Stoppers.
Bacon had been released on $50,000 bail in April 2010 after the B.C. Court of Appeal ordered a new trial on a series of charges laid against him and two others in 2005 that were earlier thrown out. His trial was set to go ahead in Surrey Provincial Court next February.
Both he and his brothers had been the subject of police warnings when the trio were all out of jail in the community. In May 2008, the Gang Task Force urged people to stay away from all three brothers, saying they were marked for death and innocent bystanders might get caught in the cross-fire. After the warnings, several Bacon and Red Scorpion associates were gunned down in a bloody gang war.
with files from Postmedia News
View video: Gangster Jonathan Bacon killed in a brazen shooting in Kelowna - Raw 1
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Alumnus holds key to inauguration Bible
January 18, 2013
|Mark Dimunation '74 shows CNN reporter Lisa Sylvester the Lincoln Bible that President Barack Obama will use at his public inauguration Monday.
"These are objects that seem to store the energy of a moment," Mark Dimunation '74 tells a CNN reporter as he shows her the small Bible that President Barack Obama used at his public inauguration, more than 150 years after Abraham Lincoln put his hand on the same Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution.
Dimunation, who stewards some of the nation's most precious documents in his role as the chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress, also gave ABC News and the Associated Press a sneak peek of the Bible.
"It's always been an object that's heavily identified with Lincoln," Dimunation tells ABC News. "But now, [it] certainly has the electricity of two centuries worth of presidencies."
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Mothers, But Not Fathers, Follow Their Own Moms' Parenting Practices
[Embargoed until 1:30 PM ET Sunday, Aug. 9 to coincide with a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.]
SAN FRANCISCO – When it comes to how they raise their children, mothers today tend to follow the same practices their own mothers did, according to a new study that looked at parenting practices across two generations.
Fathers, on the other hand, don't seem to use their moms as parenting role models, at least for some practices.Elizabeth Cooksey
Researchers at Ohio State University looked at how often parents in the 1990s spanked, read to and showed affection to their children, and compared that to how these parents were treated by their own mothers.
"We were surprised that mothers seem to learn a lot about the parenting role from their own mothers, but fathers don't follow their mothers as much," said Jonathan Vespa, co-author of the study and doctoral student in sociology at Ohio State.
"There was good reason to expect that fathers would have learned parenting from their mothers," Vespa said.
"These fathers were growing up in 70s and 80s and received much of their parenting from their mothers. Although more women were entering the workforce then, they still did the lion's share of parenting and childcare."
Fathers may have been more influenced by their dads rather than their moms, but the surveys used by the study didn't examine their fathers' behavior, Vespa said.
"We really need to learn a lot more about how fathers learn to parent," he said.
The study also revealed significant generational changes in parenting practices, with great increases in the amount of reading and affection shown to children today, and reductions in the amount of spanking.
"While parents, particularly women, are learning many parenting practices from their mothers, there is also a lot of new practices they are picking up from the broader culture," he said.
In most cases, there was no relationship between mothers' parenting practices and the parenting practices of their sons – the one exception being spanking. And in that instance, fathers who were spanked as children were less likely to spank their own children.
Vespa conducted the study with Elizabeth Cooksey, associate professor of sociology at Ohio State, and Canada Keck, a senior research associate at Ohio State's Center for Human Resource Research.
They presented their research Aug. 9 in San Francisco at the annual meeting. of the American Sociological Association.
One of the strengths of the research is that it looked at actual parenting practices over two generations, following parents and their children over many years, and then continuing to follow the children as they had their own kids, Vespa said.
The data came from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a nationally representative survey of people nationwide conducted by Ohio State's Center for Human Resource Research. Men and women aged 14 to 22 in 1979 were interviewed annually from 1979 to 1994, and once every two years from 1996 forward. A second survey followed all the children born to mothers in this original survey, from birth through adulthood, as they became parents themselves.
The final sample included 1,133 young adult parents of the mothers from the original NLSY79 survey.
In both generations, the researchers looked at how often parents spanked their children in the past week; how often they showed their child physical affection and praised them in the past week; and how often they read to their child in the past month.
Results showed that for all three behaviors, the second generation of mothers closely followed what their mothers did. For example, mothers who were spanked at least once a week are nearly half as more likely to spank their own children than mothers who weren't spanked at all.
In most cases, there was no relationship between mothers' parenting practices and the parenting practices of their sons – the one exception being spanking. And in that instance, fathers who were spanked as children were less likely to spank their own children.
"A little spanking of boys seems to deter them from spanking their own children later in life," Vespa said.
Overall, there was a large generational shift in which the second generation of parents was much less likely to spank than were their own parents. The reduction was particularly dramatic for fathers – only 28 percent of the second generation of fathers reported spanking their children, compared to 43 percent of mothers.
"The evidence suggests that mothers are more the disciplinarians in the family than fathers are today," Vespa said.
Another surprising finding was that fathers who spanked their children also tended to show high levels of affection.
"Some fathers might feel that being a strict disciplinarian is part of the way that fathers show affection to their children," he said.
There was no such connection between affection and spanking for mothers.
In general, the amount of affection parents show their children increased significantly over the generations. Sixty percent of fathers and 73 percent of mothers in the second generation reported showing their children physical affection and praising them within the last week. But only about 40 percent of their parents showed open affection on a weekly basis.
Reading to children also showed a generational shift. Nearly three times more mothers in the second generation reported reading to their children daily compared to their own parents.
Vespa said the results show that some parenting practices are passed down from mother to mother – but only to a point.
"If parents really just learned from their own parents, we wouldn't witness such dramatic generational shifts as were seen in this study," he said.
"We need to look at the broader culture to find other sources of change that shape how parents learn to parent."
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Bad Family Films!
Hat tip to reader Rachel for her combox suggestion that I follow up my "best family films" post with a post on "worst family films."
Note, though, that this post is called "Bad Family Films," not "Worst Family Films." "Best of" lists are tough and subjective, but "worst of" lists are usually close to meaningless. Picking best films is like trying to map out the heights of a mountain; picking worst films is like trying to map out the mountain's roots. There's a lot more ground to survey down there, and where do you stop? Is any film fair game, however obscure or low-budget? Or is it better to stick to high-profile flops? Which is "worse": a film that is utterly inept, inspiring complete indifference, or a film made with some skill and ambition that is so wrong-headed that you feel actual dislike for it? Who has seen even a representative sample of "worst film" contenders? Films that attract praise are sought out; films that don't are avoided.
So, having said all that, I'm basically declaring open season! I'll throw out some titles, but if my choices my last post were meant as representative rather than completist, my choices here are merely haphazardly illustrative.
To start with, though, an archetypal example of my idea of an awful family film: I give you a movie with no few defenders: Babe: Pig in the City.
How do I hate this film? Let me count the ways. (No, there is too much; let me sum up.) It's a sequel to one of the best family films ever, but it befouls and demeans the spirit of its predecessor about as thoroughly as humanly possible. The original Babe is pastoral and picturesque — not without grimness and rough edges to be sure, but fundamentally gentle, decent and sweet. Pig in the City is overwhelmingly grotesque, menacing, freakish, and perverse. In Babe, plot and theme intertwine and bring the story to its necessary and perfect triumph. Pig in the City is just one damn thing after another until it stops.
Pig in the City has Magda Szubanski's Mrs. Hoggett (a) strip-searched, (b) mugged, (c) menaced by outlaw bikers, (d) imprisoned, (e) tricked out in hoop-waisted clown pants, and (f) suspended from a chandelier in a ballroom while startled guests in fashionable eveningwear watch her clown pants inflate like a balloon—and remember, I'm just summarizing.
After reading that sentence, need any Babe fan in the world listen to anything that could possibly be said by way of misguided defense of this execrable film? Admittedly, some of my smartest movie-loving friends like this film. Roger Ebert likes this film. Sometimes even smart people are crashingly wrong. Including me, of course. But this time I am right, by gum.
I'm not sure if I can think of any other family films I hate quite that much, but here's a sampling of some I'm panned. Sorry if any of your favorites are gored here! Feel free to set me straight in the combox, and also list some of your own least favorite family films. (Note that Mary Poppins is not listed here! I'm not a fan, but I don't really dislike it, like I do the films below.)
The live-action Seuss-astrophes How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat, which I found such an affront to their source material that I felt compelled to slam them in Seuss' own voice, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. (Dishonorable mention: Scooby Doo.)
The Walden Media mess How to Eat Fried Worms, which turns an enjoyably disgusting bit of Rockwell Americana into a genuinely queasy Stockholm-syndrome concordat with bullying.
DreamWorks' oppressive Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmmaron, a tendentiously PC tale of evil white imperialists and the noble horse who heroically survives imprisonment and torture to defend his land. Cuz, you know, kids just eat up stories about horses that only want to run wild and free.
Also from DreamWorks, tThe coyly gay-themed Happy Feet and Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa. (Dishonorable mention: Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, for following in DreamWorks' footsteps, crudeness-wise. Added: Thanks to reader Edward Curtis for catching my erroneous attribution of Happy Feet to DreamWorks.)
Other disappointing sequels to excellent originals: The Legend of Zorro, a lame sequel to the excellent The Mask of Zorro, and the two Spy Kids sequels.
Kangaroo Jack: It's like Snatch for kids!
Fantasies peppered with feminist resentment: Monsters vs. Aliens and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (rebuttal discussion!).
Also for the birds: G-Force and Fantastic Four.
P.S. Hat tip to the first reader who correctly identifies the candidate for best family film that's the source of a movie quotation somewhere in this column! And let's have your picks for bad family films!


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We are a new business based in Darlington offering all types of dog grooming services for all breeds from extra small to extra large. Fully qualified and insured. We would like to offer 20% off your first visit and then 10% off all subsequent visits.
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The DFCSG - strengthening the roots of our club
The DFCSG created and manage the B2D fund, which is funding available to help establish the Club back in Darlington. The fund acts as the primary collection pot for monies raised from direct donations and events organised by the DFCSG Fundraising Group.
Of course, there are many ways in which you can help the club directly but, if you're specifically looking for a quick and easy way to support the establishment of a solid foundation for the Club in its new home, then it only takes a few minutes to set up a one-off or regular donation to the B2D Fund either by your online or high street banking service.
For monthly standing orders or a one off donation please send monies to the following account:
"Darlington FC Supporters Group"
Lloyds Bank
Sort code: 30-84-43
Account No: 30283268
To pay by cheque please make cheque payable to
"Darlington FC Supporters Group" and send to
Darlington FC Supporters Group
c/o Blackwell Meadows
Grange Road
County Durham
Please quote your name in the reference area when using internet banking and, on the back of your cheque, include your name and address.
Remember there are many ways to help the Club… can you think of any more? Please tell us about it either by email or in person at the Fans Table in the bar at all home games.
- Buying a Season Ticket helps to provide the Manager with additional funding needed to strengthen the team at the start of each new season
- Attending matches provides the club with a constant stream of money throughout the season, from additional match-day ticket sales and revenues from catering and other sales (e.g. programme sales, match-day raffle tickets, 50:50 match-day draw, Club merchandise).
- The Come On Darlo Prediction League is a fun way to add a little bit of an edge to your season - use your skill and judgement to predict how we and the other local clubs will do in the coming season, and who will be the big winners and losers nationally, come the end of the season.
- The Sponsor a Goal scheme is a fan-run initiative which has raised over £8000 for the Club since it began in season 2012-13.
- For as little as £5/month the DFC Fans Lottery Draw provides you with the chance to win either £50 in each weekly draw, or even more in the monthly Super Draw. The Lottery has raised more than £10,000 for the Club over the past 12 months.
- The Fundraising Group runs a series of entertainment fundraising events over the year, the proceeds of which go into the B2D fund.
Quaker Retail is the club shop and is open Monday to Friday between 10am and 1pm in the foyer at the Dolphin Centre, in Darlington Marketplace.
To contact the shop either telephone 07488 564642 (only available during shop opening hours) or send an email to:
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Radio Times and Doctor Who Magazine have the latest on the new series, some of which is currently being filmed in Spain, in an area famous for shooting spaghetti westerns. By all accounts this is on purpose, as Being Human creator Toby Whithouse has come up with a wild west-themed story, which will also star Ben Browder, of Farscape (and SG-1) fame. Yee, and indeed, haw!
Adrian Scarborough, who is currently starring in the rebooted Upstairs Downstairs, will also appear. As will Garrick Hagon, who Star Wars fans will remember as Luke Skywalker's rebel inspiration Biggs, from the very first Star Wars film (we forget the name). He's actually an old hand at TARDIS-wrangling, having appeared as a character called Ky in the Third Doctor adventure The Mutants in 1972.
Here's what else is going on in space and time:
• The online game Doctor Who: Worlds In Time has launched! If you want to play, get over to DoctorWhoWIT.com, and pronto!
• And while we're on games, IGN sits down with Simon Harris, executive producer of the Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock PS3 game, for a demo:
• We've seen the Doctor get shout-outs on series from Grey's Anatomy to The Big Bang Theory. Now our cohorts from Blogtor Who have cataloged recent Doctor Who references on two British series, the popular BBC soap EastEnders and the new sketch comedy series Watson & Oliver:
• Tenth Doctor David Tennant is popping up all over the silver screen. This past weekend, his romantic comedy The Decoy Bride came out in limited release in the U.S.. (Read Leah Rozen's review of it here.) And now he's the voice behind the great Charles Darwin in Aardman's new animated flick The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Here's a bit of David recording his voice parts and camping it up opposite a toy model of his Darwin character:
• Busy Boy Tennant turned up on The One Show to discuss The Pirates. Here's Part 1:
And here's Part 2:
• While we're at it, here's Tennant truly as you've never seen him before, meaning he's dressed up like a bottle of ketchup. And he does so in the name of BBC's Sport Relief, a British charity event that encourages celebrities to conduct wild feats of athleticism in the name of the less fortunate. (BBC America is set to air Sport Relief programming on April 1.)
• Facebook users, if you fancy yourself as a bit of an expert on the Fourth Doctor's reign, and the missing story Shada in particular, you might want to play the Official Doctor Who Facebook feed's quiz on the topic, either to sharpen up your knowledge, or just to show off.
• Doctor Whooves is back with "A Good Pony Goes to War":
• Here's this week's companion feature: Dodo Chaplet – Space Tigger.
• Take a moment to Trock out: Halia Celeste has taken the lovely, elegiac "Mad Man with a Box" and composed her own original lyrics to it.
• Speaking of Time Lord rock, we've seen the TARDIS used in many different ways, but have you ever seen a guiTARdis?
• The diversity of the Whovian community is one of its strengths – just visit any fan event to see why. And the series is inspiring a new generation of young fans, including 11-year-old Ruby Karp.
This budding Whovian has written a blog post on the 10 reasons she loves Doctor Who. One of them is Amy Pond: "She's so kick ass. She's a feminist; she knows she's of equal value. She's fearless but not foolish. She's smart and she's constantly asking questions. She's kind and she's not a pushover. She's silly and she's funny. She is just such a great character, I heart her." Well, we heart Amy, too! Follow the musings of Ruby Karp on Twitter and Tumblr.
• What Culture have listed the four monsters they would like to see back on the show.
• Let's end with something properly eerie: This kindly old woman, seen here suggesting a nice place to eat catfish, might say she's from the Old South, but we Whovians know a cyborg mutant from Skaro when we hear one. Thanks to our friends over at Buzzfeed for introducing us to… the Dalek lady, who just so happens to be the sister of To Kill a Mockingbird novelist Harper Lee.
*Ponders* To Exterminate a Mockingbird? Nah…
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I know there are other posts on this site about this school but what I am going to tell you have all happened during the 2011-2012 school year. This place is such a nightmare I don't even know where to begin….
The school is not in Nanchang as they will tell you. You must take two buses to get into the city which will take about an hour if you're lucky. Also the mini buses which run from outside the school to the closest town stop working at 9pm so after that you haven't a hope of leaving as there is no taxis working in the area.
If you take a taxi back to the campus the security guards refuse to let the taxi driver enter just to fuck with the foreign teachers. The foreign teacher's apartments are at the very back of the campus, at least 1.5km away. It doesn't matter if it's raining or if you have ten shopping bags with you, they still don't care. The worst part is when it's a Chinese teacher there's no problem with the taxi's going on campus. The taxi drivers simply leave their ID's at the gate and collect them on the way back out. We've tried discussing this with the FAO office but they couldn't care less.
One of my American colleagues arrived fresh from the states to be met with a beehive in his washing machine and a DEAD BAT in the kitchen. When he got sick (he believes it was from cleaning up all the bat feces and I believe him) and told the school he needed to visit a doctor or hospital they said "yeah ok, in two or three days we take you."
Another colleague was injured on campus while cycling his bike. He severely damaged his shoulder and had to get a metal plate inserted. In our contracts it states the school will pay 80% of our medical cost should we have an accident or get ill. While the school did pay the initial costs, a few months later when it came to removing the metal plate the school tried to blackmail him into signing a renewal for another year if he wanted them to pay those costs. I am glad to say he didn't succumb to the blackmail and simply paid the costs himself.
There is a huge problem with the Pakistani students that study here. They have caused a lot of trouble with the Chinese students, the other foreign students (mostly African) and the foreign teachers. Due to the large number of them they purposefully create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation directed at all non-Pakistanis. On one occasion up to 15 of them were attacking an African student outside the foreign teacher's apartments. When one of the teachers intervened to try and stop the attack they turned on him and hit him also. Last year a Chinese student was gang raped by a group of them. Instead of them facing punishment all the school was interested in was keeping the matter quiet. They were simply put on the first flight home. The poor Chinese student involved was paid off and transferred to a better school in Shanghai. The incident was mentioned in a local newspaper at the time but it was hushed up pretty quickly.
Anytime there's a problem and you try to get help nobody wants to know about it. You call one person, he/she tells you to call another person. And so on and on it goes till you just couldn't be bothered anymore…….
At least once a week the water and electricity will be cut off for hours with no warning. We've asked our FAO to at least tell us about it in advance. We get the usual "ok ok" but it's like talking to the wall.
Over the last 5 years only one teacher has ever renewed his contract here. He's a Filipino guy and is obviously happy to let the school walk all over him. No other foreigner would be crazy enough to accept the treatment foreign teachers receive. One teacher went home at Christmas and just didn't bother coming back. I think she was suffering from depression by the time she left.
The above are just some of the more serious problems. There is many more I could take about such as refusing to open the gate if we return home after 11oclock. Nothing being fixed when its broke, the schedule being non-existent and the general terrible conditions of the teacher's apartments. But I think you get the picture……..
Sorry for the long post and also if you see this post on other sites. But I believe when teachers health and safety are being put in danger then it is my duty and all other EFL teachers working here in China to warn each other about these types of places.
Please do not review this article, review the university on the link below:
Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Governmental University - China


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As soon as the first photo of Meryl Streep done up as Margaret Thatcher was released, the conventional wisdom was that the Best Actress Oscar race was all but over. Maybe not.
"Albert Nobbs," which stars Glenn Close as a woman living as a man in order to make a living as a butler in 19th-century Ireland, has been picked up by Liddell Entertainment and Roadside Attractions, who intend to release the film in the fall, reported Deadline.
Close first played the role on Broadway in the '80s and serves as producer on the film version, which she co-wrote with John Banville, and was directed by Rodrigo Garcia ("Mother and Child"). The cast also includes Mia Wasikowska (who could be in the running for "Jane Eyre"), Aaron Johnson, Janet McTeer and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. We're guessing a trailer is right around the corner.
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Close has been nominated for an Oscar five times, twice for leading roles and three times for supporting roles, but has never won, and it's been 22 years since she was last in the running. But then her career suddenly stalled--she continued to make some good films, and didn't lose her chops, but she stopped making the kind of films that grabbed people.
But her career got a nice boost when she joined the cast of "The Shield" for a season in 2005, which helped land her the lead in "Damages," which made her a star all over again, wining her two Emmys.
Now the big question is how will Academy voters decide between a someone living a cross-gender life and a controversial historical figure?


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SANTA CLARA — Left tackle Joe Staley, who sustained a bruised right forearm Saturday, was among the 49ers' full-squad contingent practicing Wednesday for the first time in advance of Sunday's NFC Championship game.
Staley appeared to be wearing a protective pad on his right forearm while on a field farthest away from the media's viewing area.
Wearing no-contact jerseys, as has been the case for much of the past month, were linebacker Aldon Smith, cornerback Tarell Brown and fullback Bruce Miller.
Defensive tackle Justin Smith, who returned to practice two weeks ago, again donned a brace on his injured left arm.
Billy Cundiff kicked during warm-ups despite being failing to unseat David Akers last week during their practice competition.
Check back here for more on this developing story when the official participation report is released by the 49ers later Wednesday afternoon.


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A fun day in Okutama! Kayaking through the beautiful upper reaches of the Tama river followed by a visit to a riverside sake brewery.
Kayaking is a leisurely and fun way to explore the area and take in the beautiful leafy green surroundings. We will be kayaking on the Shiromaru section of the Tama river which is predominantly a gentle lake like section famous for its incredible green and clear waters. We will be doing a beginners course so its fine for first-timers.
A short hike along the riverside will get us to the local Sake Brewery where we can sample the great local sake and have lunch by the river. After relaxing at and exploring the sake brewery and gardens you can choose to head home or visit the local onsen.


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June 12: Elephant Flossing Day, Hug a Proctologist Day
- 1885 - At a murder trial in France, a roof collapses, killing 30 people, finally ending the vicious cycle of "justice" in France once and for all!
- 1932 - Current month begins bustin' out all over, ends up leaving a horrible mess. Incident later depicted in the musical Carousel.
- 1939 - In northern Africa, Adolf Hitler refuses to floss an elephant as a gesture of welcome from a local tribe, as "it could be full of gay". Tribesmen chase him out, and he takes his anger out on Poland soon after.
- 1987 - In Chernobyl, Russian Emperor Mikhail Gorbachev accidentally misflosses an Elephant during the Chernobyl Elephant Flossing Day Annual Festival. As a result, reactor #2 at the Chernobyl nuclear flossing plant explodes, killing 42 people and injuring one elephant.
- 1987 - Schenectady woman Joyce Q. Spepple claims to see vision of Virgin Mary in taco salad; later proven to be secret messages from Helen Reddy.
- 1987 - In Berlin, Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." The Battle of the Berlin Wall ensues.
- 1987 - (A day later) - Ronald Reagan forgets what the Battle of the Berlin Wall was about.
- 1987 - Borg attack sector 001 (before Breakfast) reminding Reagan that "resistance is futile". Reagan nukes Borg while shouting "Assimilate this motherflossers!".
- 1987 - All women's underwear declared illegal in Warsaw Pact nations. NATO, having seen Warsaw Pact women, don't really care.
- 1987 - World attacked by aliens from Pluto (lunchtime). Pluto declared a non-planet, attack vaporizes as they are not real.
- 1987 - World Stock Markets crash. Lehman Brothers given ticket for "failure to yield". Markets rebound and begin dating other markets.
- 1987 - 2,479,802 other major civilization threatening events occur. No one notices due to Communist underwear crisis.
- 1988 - 1st anniversary of 'A Shitload of Stuff all Happens on the Same Day Day'
- 2009 - The Kool-Aid Man, finally goes to rehab for his drug addiction.
- 2010 - Justin Beiber, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson are all found dead after an apparent fight over who got to fuck Kristen Stewart. Kristen's response was "Fuck you, you motherfuckers. Justin Beiber? He ain't even legal. No one's gonna come between me and my man, Robert. Wait, Robert's dead? Oh HELL NO!
- 2011 - Garden Gnome sexing becomes Olympic sport. Justin Beiber named captain of Canadian and United States teams.


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Another Mobile World Congress, another round of highfalutin' talk surrounding the concept of wireless power. We already witnessed a consumer approach by PowerbyProxi, and now we're hearing that the Power Matters Alliance is getting a second wind as well. The self-proclaimed "leading ecosystem and standard for wireless power" took to Boston-area Starbucks locations last fall, and now it has notched support from BlackBerry, NEC, Texas Instruments, ZTE and dozens more. There's still no word on whether all of these factions are going to bite the bullet and come together in order to actually make some progress that consumers can appreciate, but hey -- we've got nothing but time, right?
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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- (Mobile World Congress) -- Big names in the mobile world continued the surge in support for the Power Matters Alliance (PMA), the world's leading ecosystem and standard for wireless power.
Following recent announcements of support by AT&T, Starbucks, Otterbox, IDT, NXP and many others, the Power Matters Alliance today announced that BlackBerry, NEC, Texas Instruments, ZTE, and dozens more have joined its membership role in the past month alone.
"We're excited to see the momentum behind the PMA," said Jeff Howard , Vice President, Mobile Devices and Accessories at AT&T, and a PMA Board member. "The PMA membership has created an industry standard for wireless power and with that continues to move towards creating a real world ecosystem that turns our standard into a new reality for consumers worldwide."
PMA was founded by Powermat Technologies and Procter & Gamble in 2012; Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf , is its Honorary Chairman, and its board includes representatives from AT&T, Duracell, Starbucks and the US Government's Energy Star and Federal Communications Commission (both in non-voting capacity).The PMA's efforts to set a global standard for smart and environmental wireless power operates under the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Industry Connections program – and PMA members are working to create a real-world ecosystem of wireless power based on the PMA standard.
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Colorado Rapids coach Oscar Pareja told reporters Friday after training that he has not ruled out midfielders Dillon Powers and Vicente Sanchez from playing in the final regular season match against Vancouver on Sunday (6 p.m. MT, Altitude 2).
Powers has been out since suffering a concussion on October 5 against Seattle while Sanchez has been in doubt with a sprained shoulder sustained last week against the Whitecaps.
"They are on the traveling roster," Pareja said of Powers and Sanchez. "We will take these two days to keep evaluating the possibility to play them or not."
Pareja said that Powers still needs to complete steps in Major League Soccer's concussion protocol and that the rookie would either take the tests in Colorado before leaving or possibly in Vancouver if necessary.
Pareja also said that he will take 20 players on the trip as a precaution, and in case of the potentially quick turnaround to a knockout match in Seattle next Wednesday.
"We have all the scenarios planned already," he said. "In the case that we have to play away on Wednesday or Thursday, or that we play at home on Thursday. It's all been planned. If we play at Seattle we will go directly from Vancouver."
As for Sunday's opponent, even though Vancouver has been eliminated from contention - and baring the strangest outcome to keep the Rapids from the postseason, Pareja views the match as a playoff game.
"I don't think the series has finished yet," Pareja said of meeting the Whitecaps in the second game of a home-and-home. "We're not mathematically qualified. I know it sounds ridiculous, but this team has taken it that way. We want to go and fight for those points and the three points puts us in a better spot."
The Rapids will depart for Vancouer on Saturday morning.


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Court allows Marc Dawson's family's suit against YMCA
After five years and about 30 depositions, the wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of a Harborfields teen who drowned in the pool of the Huntington YMCA will go to trial.
Earlier this month, State Supreme Court judge Denise F. Molia handed down a decision that the case against YMCA of Long Island and four of its employees must be decided by a jury.
The court threw out a motion by the defendants to have the case dismissed or to eliminate various claims in the lawsuit, including wrongful death, pain and suffering and a claim for punitive damages.
"What the judges decision shows is that there is sufficient evidence that this case be heard and decided by a jury," said Michael Perrotta, the Huntington-based lawyer representing the family of Marc Dawson, who died in 2008. "That's what the Dawson family wants. They want the opportunity for their case to be heard by a jury and to receive justice for Marc."
Perrotta said he expects to get a trial date in four to six months. The family plans to seek $10 million in damages, Perrotta said.
On Feb. 18, 2008, Dawson, 17, a senior at Harborfields High School in Greenlawn and a lifeguard at the YMCA, was on a break and apparently practicing for Navy SEAL training in a 4-foot-deep lap pool when a lifeguard noticed him unconscious at the bottom of the pool. He died a week later.
The Dawson family sued, alleging in their complaint that the plaintiffs were "reckless, careless, and negligent in the ownership, operation, management, maintenance, control, life guarding and supervision of the subject premises."
The defendants in the case are the YMCA of Long Island, based in Glen Cove, which oversees the Huntington facility; two lifeguards on duty when the accident happened, then-teenagers Kaitlyn Wulfken and Adam Dworkin; Georgene Howell, an aquatics coordinator, and Donna Porter, a lifeguard, both of whom were on the premises.
Eileen Knauer, the Y's regional vice president and executive director, declined to comment because the case is the subject of ongoing litigation.
Wulfken, Howell and Porter did not return calls for comment. Dworkin also could not be reached for comment.
Marc's father, Ray Dawson of Greenlawn, said the process has been grueling, but he is glad a jury will decide the case. "I promised my son we would get to the truth," Dawson said.


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WASHINGTON, June 29, 2011--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is asking for the public's help in detecting and preventing the spread of the Asian Longhorned Beetles ( Anoplophora glabripennis), a serious pest of hardwood trees.
Federal, state and local partners are currently working to eradicate active Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) infestations in portions of Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. ALB was detected in Ohio this month and surveys are currently being conducted to determine the size and scope of the infestation. Eradication has been declared from infestations in Illinois and Hudson County, N.J. While the ALB does not pose a risk to human health, it is extremely dangerous to hardwood trees. ALB is known to attack and kill healthy maple trees, as well as ash, birch, elm, European mountain ash, golden rain, hackberry, horse chestnut, katsura, London plane tree, mimosa, poplar and willow. To date, the beetle has caused the destruction of more than 72,000 hardwood trees in the United States alone.
"July is when we start to see adult beetles emerge after a winter spent growing and developing deep inside the tree they've infested, and they are easy to see if you know what to look for," said Rebecca Bech, deputy administrator for APHIS' plant protection and quarantine program. "It is important to familiarize yourself with the signs of an ALB infestation and monitor your own trees and trees in your community for this destructive pest."
The ALB is a large beetle. Its body is approximately 1- to 1-1/2 inches long and is shiny black with random white spots. Its antennae, which are longer than the insect's body, are banded black and white and it has six legs. Its feet are black and sometimes appear with a bluish tint. Adult beetles typically first appear during the month of July and will continue to be present throughout the summer and into the early fall months. Adult ALB can be found anywhere, including on trees, benches, patios and outdoor furniture, sides of houses and sidewalks, etc.
The beetle can also be found, and unknowingly transported, in firewood. Cutting a tree into firewood will not kill the ALB developing inside it, and adult beetles can still emerge from the wood, thereby spreading an ALB infestation to new areas. Firewood from ALB regulated areas must be used within the regulated area. If you see signs of ALB infestation on your firewood, please call the USDA or your state department of agriculture immediately. Firewood also presents a very real threat to the Nation's forests, not only from the ALB, but other invasive species, such as the emerald ash borer (EAB), as well. APHIS is asking residents not to move firewood and to purchase firewood locally from the area where it will be burned.
If you see the ALB, or other signs of an ALB infestation, or if you have questions about control and eradication efforts, please call your local APHIS state plant health director, your state department of agriculture or the ALB cooperative eradication program in your state. For residents in New England, to reach the ALB cooperative eradication program in Massachusetts, call (866) 702-9938. For the ALB cooperative eradication program in New York, call
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A large New York mall has reopened after a leaking roof spurred worries of a possible roof collapse.
No one was injured when the Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove was evacuated Monday. Smithtown Building Department Director John Bongino says inspectors and fire marshals checked for damage Tuesday.
A mall spokeswoman says some stores will remain closed until further notice. But most of the mall, one of the biggest on New York's Long Island, was open as of 12:45 p.m.
Leaks were reported in about a dozen stores after a heavy rain followed a weekend blizzard.
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The Central Connecticut women's basketball team earned a 65-58 victory over Rhode Island on Wednesday night in Detrick Gymnasium. Four Blue Devils scored in double figures with senior Jessica Babe leading the way with 17 points. CCSU improves to 1-2 on the season with the victory and the Blue Devils have now won four straight home openers.
Despite leading the entire game, the Blue Devils were unable to pull away from the Rams until the final moments of the second half. Rhode Island tied the contest on a layup by Tayra Melendez with 2:55 remaining in regulation, but the Blue Devils answered with back-to-back three-point baskets by freshman Lauren Wolosik and Babe to take a six point lead.
The Rams (0-2) responded and cut their deficit to 59-56, but a strong baseline drive for a layup by sophomore Kayla Miller and a turn-around jumper by senior Lauren Arbogast helped CCSU maintain a two-possession lead.
Wolosik put the final touches on the victory with a pair of free throws on CCSU's next possession.
The Blue Devils carried a 32-29 lead into the half behind nine points from Babe and eight from Arbogast. Sophomore Amanda Harrington also chipped in six points in the first half.
Harrington was strong in the paint for the Blue Devils with seven rebounds and two blocks.
Babe (17), Wolosik (15), Arbogast (14) and junior Kaley Watras (10) all scored in double-digits.
Harrington's seven rebounds led CCSU on the glass. Watras (5), Arbogast (5), Thomas (5) and Babe (3) also had strong rebounding games.
As a team CCSU shot 50.0% (22-44) for the game, including a 45% (5-9) mark from behind the three point arc.
CCSU used 11 players in the game with nine securing atleast one rebound.
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Virtually Speaking: All Eyes on Hyper-V
Get the champagne out of the cooler, rev up the servers, Hyper-V has arrived. If you didn't break out in jubilation from the news, take heart. The general response from this vantage point was muted. So muted in fact, that perhaps the only element of surprise was the timing: Hyper-V was made available a whopping two months ahead of schedule. Unusual for any software product, but in the case of Microsoft, about which delayed ship dates is pretty much a running gag, it is unheard of and no doubt indicative of the urgency Redmond feels toward the technology.Hyper-V is here. Will it live up to the hype?
Or perhaps, Microsoft hopes that Hyper-V's release will give Windows Server 2008 the kick it needs. For whatever reason, companies haven't jumped on the latest operating system since it's late-February launch.
Perhaps it's because, as Roy Illsley, a senior research analyst at Butler Group noted in the above-referenced article, "The codebase of Server 2008 is the same as Vista, and no one wants Vista ... Equally, there is no compelling case to implement Server 2008 just yet."
Add to that, Windows Server 2003 is humming along happily in most environments, and no company wants to be the first to deploy a new product into production.
But now Hyper-V, the most sought-after (and certainly hyped) feature in the OS, is here. Will companies chomping at the bit to virtualize jump? Bear in mind that this is a pretty deep and untapped pool while some surveys estimate virtualization's penetration to be as high as 14 percent, the more frequently cited stats are between 2 percent and 5 percent. So VMware's current kingpin status is far less solid than it would like you to believe.
Hyper-V is an easy choice for those still sitting on the fence that want to go virtual. Given Microsoft's reach, and its eventual penetration (because let's face it, Windows Server 2008 will inevitably penetrate the majority of data centers eventually), the overlap between the unvirtualized and Windows shops is pretty massive. And that doesn't even take into account the likelihood of mixed environments, from a pure OS and hypervisor perspective.
Interestingly, though not surprisingly, it was the release itself, not the product, that made news last week. After all, anyone who's been awake this year has been treated to a rundown of the feature set, and drama behind it, ad nauseum. The majority of news outfits, InternetNews, included, opted to focus on the response to the release. From Microsoft competitors to partners, the sense seemed to be, "it's finally here, now we can really do battle."
VMware, not surprisingly, is wearing a stoic face. John Gilmartin, senior manager, product marketing, told ServerWatch he believes that at this point, Hyper-V is more in competition with VMware Server than ESX." He noted Microsoft's product is "just a hypervisor" and moreover is completely reliant on the OS.
Customers, he said, are "looking for functionality beyond the basic, beyond the hypervisor."
VMware's response to the release is to "make sure our offering brings compelling value to customers. Microsoft is a first-generation hypervisor product, which is what we've been doing from the beginning," Gilmartin said.
Not a whole lot new there, and it would certainly be a mistake for VMware to completely discount Microsoft. Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect and Netscape all had their place in the sun at one time. First to market or best technology doesn't guarantee a continued market share.
While many eyes focused on VMware, the other major virtualization environment was largely overlooked. Will Citrix XenServer and the various Xen-based offerings on the market be able to hold their own? At present, they lack both VMware's market share and marketing muscle and no doubt have the most to lose. Some tech bloggers have even made such seemingly wild predictions as, "Citrix will drop the open source Xen hypervisor for Hyper-V. The rest of the open source world drops Xen for KVM."
Let the games begin. Be sure to buckle up, because only one thing is for certain it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Amy Newman is the managing editor of ServerWatch. She has been following the virtualization space since 2001.


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we have integrated Jira and Subversion to see the changes made to the repository in Jira. To see the change set from jira, 3 options are provided by jira (Fisheye, Web Client for SVN and ViewVC). We have opted for the Web Client for SVN and done with the configuration using "readme" file in svnwebclient-3.1.0.zip.
I web.XML the username and password for svn are also provided and the jira is configured to use the svnwebclient.
When we click on the change set URL in jira, the polarion svnwebclient is prompting for login credentials (which should not happen as they are provided in web.xml). If credentials are provided able to see the change set.
Is there any way to view the change set by avoiding the login page ??
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Why need to login even after providing details in web.xml
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Same issue here, using JIRA SVN Integration with Polarion SVN Web Client. The point of SVN Web Client in our installation is to easily see DIFF's when clicking on changed files within JIRA. The fact that the user needs to enter his SVN login is extremely annoying.
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Same issue. Have you found a solution?
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SVN Importer appears to ignore PVCS VM Promotion Groups which we specifically use to track environment snapshots. In all other respects our quite large VM archives are imported successfully but we really need the promotion group info, any ideas?
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Gift Box Wedding Cake
This cake will be sure to delight all of your guests at your shower. Everything can be made ahead and assembled the day of.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Greendale, Wisconsin
Total TimePrep: 1 hour 35 min. + soaking Bake: 1 hour + cooling
Makes50 servings
- 1-1/3 cups poppy seeds, divided
- 4 packages white cake mix (regular size)
- 1 package (3.4 ounces) instant lemon pudding mix
- 1-1/2 cups butter, softened
- 15 cups confectioners' sugar
- 3/4 cup half-and-half cream
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Pink liquid or paste food coloring
- Place 1/3 cup poppy seeds in each of four small bowls; add the water called for in cake mix directions to each bowl. Soak for 1 hour.
- Prepare cake batters according to package directions, using poppy seed water. Bake in three greased and floured 13x9-in. baking pans and two 8-in. square pans. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Prepare pudding according to package directions; refrigerate.
- For frosting, in a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar. Add the cream, vanilla and salt; beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. (Frosting may need to be made in batches.) Add food coloring to 4-1/2 cups frosting.
- Cut a small hole in the corner of two plastic or pastry bags; insert #3 pastry tip in one bag and #5 pastry tip in the other. Place 1/2 cup white frosting in bag with #3 tip and 1/2 cup pink frosting in the other. Cover remaining frosting with a damp cloth until ready to use.
- Trim two 13x9-in. cakes into 12x8-in. rectangles as in Fig. 1a; level tops. Cut an 8x2-in. strip off each, leaving two pieces (A). Cut each strip in half, forming four 4x2-in. pieces. As in Fig. 1b, attach two 4x2-in. pieces together lengthwise with white frosting to form a 4x4-in. pieces (B); repeat with two remaining pieces and set aside.
- Trim remaining 13x9-in. cake into a 12x7-in. rectangle as in Fig. 2; level top. Cut cake in half to form two 7x6-in. pieces (C); set aside.
- Level tops of 8-in. square cakes.
- Each frosted layer of the cake consists of two cake pieces with a lemon pudding filling in between. Place one piece A on a covered board; spread with pudding to with 1/2 in. of edge. Place second piece A on top; set aside. Repeat filling procedure for remaining layers (pieces B, C and 8-in. squares) and place on covered boards.
- For bottom layer, frost piece A with 3-1/2 cups white frosting. If desired, attach a ribbon across the corners of piece A (as shown in photo).
- For second layer, frost 8-in. cake with 2-1/2 cups pink frosting. With prepared bag of white frosting, pipe a continuous string, curving up, down and around so strings never touch or cross on cake.
- For third layer, frost piece C with 2 cups white frosting. With prepared bag of pink frosting, pipe dots 1/2 in. apart over entire cake.
- Frost piece B with remaining pink frosting. Add bow on top.
- For bottom three layers, cut a 1/4-in. dowel into five pieces the height of each layer. Insert dowels 1 to 2 in. apart in center of each cake to support the next layer. Carefully stack layers on a serving platter, working from largest cake to smallest. Decorate with ribbon and silk flowers as desired. Remove dowels before cutting each layer.
Editor's Note: Unfrosted cakes can be frozen for up to 6 months wrapped in foil. Frosting can be prepared 2 weeks ahead; store in refrigerator. Rewhip before spreading. Cake can be assembled 8 hours before serving.
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Prop 33 Hurts Consumers - 40 Newspaper Editorials Say Vote NO
Nov 04, 2012, 08:08 ET
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Forty newspaper editorial boards oppose Proposition 33, an auto insurance rate hike proposal funded by billionaire George Joseph, owner of Mercury Insurance.
Editorial pages decry Prop 33 as an abuse of the ballot by a billionaire to benefit his company at the expense of millions of consumers. They warn that Proposition 33's premium rate increases would make insurance less affordable, resulting in more uninsured motorists on our roads.
George Joseph has spent $17 million on Prop 33. Two years ago, voters rejected a nearly identical Mercury Insurance-funded measure. Editorial pages urge readers to send a loud message that "no" means "no" by defeating Prop 33 in a landslide. A sample of No on Prop 33 editorials:
Sacramento Bee: "Prop 33 is an old jalopy with a new coat of paint."
San Diego Union Tribune: "No on Prop 33 – it's just not fair."
Los Angeles Times: "Raising the cost of coverage for those without insurance doesn't help anyone on California's roads. Voters should reject Proposition 33."
San Jose Mercury News: "California voters should vote no on Proposition 33 on Nov. 6 in such large numbers that Joseph never tries to dupe Golden State residents again."
San Francisco Chronicle: "California's compelling public-policy interest is to make sure that drivers are insured. Keeping rates affordable advances that goal. Vote no on 33."
Bakersfield Californian: "State's drivers don't need Prop 33."
Stockton Record: "Don't let Prop 33 fool you."
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: "No on 33. This retread is no bargain."
Riverside Press Enterprise: "a retread of a special-interest measure voters rejected two years ago. The new version deserves the same fate; voters should just say no to Prop. 33."
Santa Cruz Sentinel: "No on warmed over Prop 33."
San Bernardino Sun: "Mercury's billionaire boss George Joseph is back…It's a retread of the 2010 ballot proposition, and it deserves rejection too."
Ventura Star: "Proposition 33 would have a significant, damaging consequence… It's a threat to everyone on the road, including conscientious drivers…"
La Opinion (Los Angeles): "The owner of Mercury Insurance, George Joseph, continues to stubbornly try to change the law… This is an abuse of the system of initiatives, which was designed to put the brakes on corporate interests."
Fresno Bee: "Do not let George Joseph hijack that process to advance narrow economic agendas. Voters said no to Mercury in 2010, and should say no again on Prop. 33."
Los Angeles Daily News: "One company returns with same self-serving insurance measure voters already rejected in 2010.... Voters should say no to Proposition 33. And this time Mercury Insurance should get the message."
Santa Maria Times: "Prop 33 is mostly the self-interested brainchild of the billionaire founder of a car insurance company…If the auto insurance industry wants to guarantee that more and more drivers simply choose to drive without insurance protection, thus endangering other citizens, this is one sure way to do it…"
Read these editorials and more at http://noonprop33.consumercal.org/who-is-talking-about-33
As election day approaches, Prop 33 is struggling in opinion polls. A broad coalition of senior citizen, consumer, labor, civil rights, environmental and women's organizations, and college student leaders call for the defeat of Prop. 33.
Learn more about who is opposing Prop 33: http://noonprop33.consumercal.org/ and http://stopprop33.consumerwatchdogcampaign.org/
SOURCE Consumer Federation of California


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How to Apply Water Based Paints - Part 2
The Final Steps to Paintjob Perfection
If the 1986 Dodge featured in last month's article "Mail-Order Pride" about how to spray Auto-Air Colors water-based paint over Summit Racing's high-solids urethane clear has served to do anything, it's been a great test bed to prove long-term product durability. From the very start, using Summit Racing DTM epoxy primer over bare metal to the final stages of color sanding and rubbing its five years of exposure to the elements have not caused a failure. No rust or shrinkage caused by the primer, and no dulling back of the clearcoat from exposure to UV rays or color sanding.
It was last May 2013 that I returned to cover the autobody students at Riverside City College color-sanding and rubbing out the Dodge's second stage clear topcoat. At the end of the school day I loaded the old Ram on my car trailer and hauled it home. As with any vehicle that's been apart too long there was list of vital parts missing from the truck. I lost interest and parked the Dodge in my driveway and forgot about it. The cats used it as a springboard to jump from the roof of my house and the neighbor's gardeners liked it for hurtling rocks from the jet stream of their leaf blowers. Then one morning I was in the mood to dig back into the Dodge project.
There's more than one reason to color-sand and rub out a paintjob. The first is color sanding is the final step toward smoothing the surface as flat as possible and catches any dust particles that might have settled in the clear before it dried thoroughly. The end results are the finish has been made to appear as flawless as possible.
The second reason one would want to color-sand and rub out a finish is because this process can be an absolute savior for any paintjob that didn't turn out as well as expected. There's an old adage amongst painters that if you don't get any runs you're not trying hard enough. That's hard enough as in trying to "slick it," a term meaning a painter did a perfect job of laying the paint on to look as slick as glass. Performing such a feat is every painter's ultimate goal, but there's going to be some beginner's dues to pay along the way. These dues will come in the form of runs, fish eyes, dirt in the paint, and most likely some paint flaws that no one has ever seen before. No matter what the flaw or blemish might be, color sanding, followed by a thorough polishing (rub out), can save the day.
The third motivation for color sanding and rubbing is to revitalize a paintjob that for any number of reasons has lost the appearance of new paint. It's only a matter of time for an automotive finish to lose its glossy sheen due to the effects of ultraviolet light, extreme heat or cold, or even the quality of the paint that was used. Typically a color-sanded and rubbed paintjob using lower-quality paints is more subject to a condition that's known as dull back. In some cases, it takes only a few months before the shines goes flat, and if left unchecked, the finish can deteriorate to the point of flaking and peeling. If caught in time, the ill effects of allowing a finish to deteriorate can be delayed or avoided all together.
There is an expression used by painters that's known as breaking the skin. There was a time when any paint that was color-sanded and rubbed wouldn't hold up as well as paint that was allowed to keep its skin. In the 21st century's second decade, the advent of superior-quality, high-solid paints means a color-sanded and rubbed finish can endure as long as an untouched finish. That's great news for DIY guys and professionals alike because show-quality results are now easier to obtain and will endure for a long time.